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Regulating romance : youth love letters, moral anxiety, and intervention in Uganda's time of AIDS /

"Shanti Parikh uses evocative stories and the innovative methodology of love letters to trace how Uganda's globally applauded HIV campaigns implemented within a context of persistent inequalities have unintentionally heightened anxiety around youth sexuality, transforming the young female...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parikh, Shanti, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Going public: the virus, video, and evangelicalism.
  • "Things keep changing" : histories of dispersal and anxiety in Iganga. Demographic shifts, free young women, and idle adolescent men
  • Patriarchy, marriage, and gendered reputations.
  • Publics: interventions into youth sexuality. The evolution of HIV : inequalities and biomedical citizenship
  • From auntie to disco : risk and pleasure in sexuality education
  • "They arrested me for loving a school girl" : controlling delinquent daughters and punishing defiant boyfriends.
  • Counterpublic : youth romance and love letters. Geographies of courtship and gender in the consumer economy
  • "Burn the letter after reading" : secrecy and go-betweens
  • "B4 I symbolise my symbolised symbology" : packaging and reading love letters
  • "I miss you like a desert missing rain" : desire and longing
  • "You're just playing with my head" : disappointment and uncertainty
  • Conclusion : the death of Sam.